Petaminx: Rubik’s Cube on Steroids

By Alex in Toys on Mar 4, 2009 at 7:28 pm

If the Rubik’s cube is too easy for you, check out this puzzle created by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge, based on Andrew Cormier’s design. Behold, the Petaminx, a dodecahedral puzzle with 4 slices per face:

It is entirely custom built and contains almost 1000 moving parts.

This project took place over two months, including:

20 hours on masters and molds.
12 hours casting parts.
30 hours cleaning up parts and sanding (!!)
7 hours assembling all 1000 parts
6 hours stickering.

Also checkout the video clip of Andrew Cormier’s Teraminx – via Unique Daily

Tags: Andrew Cormier, Jason Smith, petaminx, puzzle, Rubik's Cube

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SomeGuy
Mar 4th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
That thing would make me want to kill myself.
Thomas
Mar 4th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
“20 hours on masters and molds.
12 hours casting parts.
30 hours cleaning up parts and sanding (!!)
7 hours assembling all 1000 parts
6 hours stickering.”

And two years of your life to solve it.
Neil Camberly
Mar 4th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I MUST have that thing.
David Govett
Mar 4th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Life’s too short for such monomania.
Johnny Cat
Mar 4th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Oh, Haayyll no!
Richard
Mar 4th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
I can’t imagine why anyone would want one of those… other than to screw it up forever.
Txateer
Mar 5th, 2009 at 12:05 am
ummmm…why?
Camilla
Mar 5th, 2009 at 2:24 am
If I had it I wouldn’t so much try to solve it, I’d just scramble it and put it on a shelf. It’s beautiful!
stephbot
Mar 5th, 2009 at 3:54 am
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL FUNISHMENT.
Edward
Mar 5th, 2009 at 5:55 am
If it only took 65 hours to create this toy, Jason Smith is a prototyping genius. I bow before skills I can only begin to imagine.
Mobes
Mar 5th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Really nice. The thing that gets me is that the Rubik Cube was beautiful because of it’s difficulty compared to it’s simple design. Although these cube variations are beautiful, they look (and are!) really difficult – the Rubik cube looked easy.
Skipweasel
Mar 5th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Looks like it needs some detents to ensure the segments line up easily and reliably.
Andrew D
Mar 5th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I wonder if the guy Will Smith played in The Pursuit of Happyness can create a formula to solve it?
TigerGulp
Mar 5th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
*is scared*
Speedcubing.ro
Jul 19th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
yes. thats a very nice work…that guys makes a lot of nice puzzles. you can find him on http://www.twistypuzzles.com

if you want to check a nice collection check this one:

http://www.speedcubing.ro/18/colectia-mea-de-cuburi-rubik-8-iunie-2009
nugraha
Dec 18th, 2009 at 6:37 am
that would take my whole life to solve it
wuk
May 20th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
“I wonder if the guy Will Smith played in The Pursuit of Happyness can create a formula to solve it?”

I am not a pro in mathematic. But I think if someone really would do a formula for the usual cube (which someone sure did) using it on a biger cube with more colours and more buttons/objects would be no problem for them ~him I guess. The reason behind mathematical formulas is exactly to solve such problems where you have so big numbers and so many different variables that you cant solve it succesfully with trial & error anymore

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